In 230 BC, Qin Shi Huang destroyed Korea. In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang destroyed the State of Qi, and then completed the great achievement of annexing the Six Kingdoms and unifying the Jiangshan.
In the past 10 years, there have been countless generals who have made great contributions to Qin Shi Huang. Among the more famous ones are Wang Qi and Wang Ben father and son, Meng Wu, Meng Tian father and son, Li Xin and Zhang Handan.
In 207 BC, the Prince of Qin surrendered to Liu Bang, and the Qin Dynasty and even the Qin State declared its demise. At this time, it has only been 14 years since Qin Shi Huang unified the world, where have these famous generals, except for Zhang Handan, gone?
First, Wang Qi and Wang Ben father and son surrendered their military power early, and Qin II had already died during the qin period.
In history, there are two generals with quite high emotional intelligence, one is Wang Qi, and the other is Guo Ziyi. These two generals are enough to cover the Lord, but they make the monarch feel that they have the slightest possibility of merit and high lordship.
Wang Qi and Wang Ben father and son, on the road of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms, it was simply open and hanging. Among them, the five countries of Zhao Wei qi and Chu Yan were all destroyed by their father and son.
If this had been replaced by someone else, it would have been destroyed by the emperor long ago, why? Because of this kind of merit, they can no longer be rewarded, and they can't give up the throne to their old royal family to sit on, right?
But Wang Qi was very clever, every time he went out to destroy a country, he immediately came back to return the military power to Qin Shi Huang, and said that he was really old and could not take the soldiers, this was the last time.
However, the next time Qin Shi Huang couldn't figure it out, he still asked Wang Qi to come out of the horse. Wang Qi took great pains to straighten things out, for example, after destroying the Chu state, he immediately returned and wanted to return to his hometown.
So Wang Qi sent 600,000 soldiers to Bashang. Wang Qixing, please Mitian house garden pond crowd. The First Emperor said, "If the general is done, why worry about poverty?" Wang Qi said: "For the great king general, meritorious service can not be crowned marquis in the end, so and the king's subjects, the subjects also promptly asked Yuanchi to be the ear of the descendants." Shi Huang laughed. --- The Chronicle of History
And to Qin Shi Huang want this and that, that is, not to take an official position, to show a greedy appearance. Before attacking the State of Chu, Wang Qi asked Qin Shi Huang for land property five times in a row, hoping to leave some property for his descendants. Even his subordinates felt that Wang Qi had gone too far, but Qin Shi Huang was very happy. Why, because Wang Qi likes the field, then there will be no rebellion.
By the time of Qin II, Wang Qi and his son Ben had both died and the Montessori clan had been destroyed. --- The Chronicle of History
After Qin Shi Huang completed the great cause of unification, Wang Qi also returned to his hometown and gave up his military power. As the son of Wang Qi, Wang Ben was given the title of Marquis of Tongwu, and then disappeared from the historical records, presumably following Wang Qi and returning to hiding. By the time of Qin II, both Wang Qi and Wang Ben had died.
As for Wang Qi's grandson, Wang Li, the son of Wang Ben, he appeared in the last years of the Qin Dynasty. However, Wang Li's fate was more tragic, in the Battle of julu, Wang Li and Zhang Handan were defeated by Xiang Yu, and their whereabouts are unknown after that, and there are historical records that show that this big brother was slaughtered by Xiang Yu.
Second, Meng Wu, Meng Tian father and son, Qin II period is no longer there.
The father and son of the Meng family have always been loyal ministers of the Qin state, and the veteran general Meng Xiao, assisting King Zhaoxiang of Qin, King Xiaowen of Qin, King Xiang of Qinzhuang, and King Xiang of Qin, has made great contributions to the Qin state, but unfortunately he has not been able to see the days when Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms.
Meng Xiao's son Meng Wu , who had served as Wang Qi 's second-in-command , followed him in his attack on the Chu state. In the territory of the Chu state, he led troops to kill the famous General Xiang Yan of the Chu State, and later captured the Chu king of the Chu State, and made a great contribution to the destruction of the Chu State.
But history has not given a reasonable answer to the outcome of Mengwu. However, it is most likely that Meng Wu died while Qin Shi Huang was alive, because his son Meng Tian had already become a great general who defeated the Xiongnu before Qin Shi Huang died.
It was time for the Mongols to vibrate the Huns. The First Emperor greatly respected the Montessori clan and trusted the sages. And close to Meng Yi, the supreme secretary, out of the ride, into the front of the imperial court. Tian is often an internal schemist and is called faithful, so although the generals dare not fight with each other. --- The Chronicle of History
Meng Wu had two sons, Meng Tian and Meng Yi. Meng Yi was a civilian official, willing to use his brain, and achieved the high position of Shangqing all the way. As for Monty, it's even more remarkable.
Meng Tian made great contributions to the battle against Qi, so he was given the title of Internal History. After that, he led troops to resist the Xiongnu for a long time, and led 300,000 troops on the northern border of Mengtian to defeat the Huns, recover the area south of Hetao, and establish 34 counties in the local area.
In addition, he also shouldered the heavy responsibility of connecting the Great Wall of the Zhao, Yan and Qin states, so that the Xiongnu did not dare to invade the south casually. As long as Meng Tian was guarding the town in the north, the Huns did not dare to go south to make trouble.
Meng Tian's ending was more tragic, because Zhao Gao, together with Li Si, made a sand dune change and helped his son Hu Hai to the throne. As a result, as soon as Hu Hai came to power, he first gave Fu Su death by the order of Qin Shi Huang.
Meng Tian sighed and said, "Why am I guilty of heaven and die without fault?" For a long time, Xu Yue said, "Sin should be dead." From the Liaodong of the Tao dynasty, the city is more than ten thousand miles, and there can be no Jedi pulse in this? This is also the sin of Tranquility. "It is suicide by swallowing medicine." --- The Chronicle of History
Originally, Meng Tian also wanted to persuade Fu Su to think about it, but as a result, Fu Su's hand speed was too fast, and he directly killed himself. As soon as Meng Tian saw that Fu Su was hanging, he committed suicide with him. As for Meng Yi, there was no good end, because he had offended Hu Hai, so he had already been killed by Hu Hai.
Therefore, by the time Xiang Yu wanted to clean up the Qin State, several useful good erlangs of the Meng family had already been destroyed by Qin II, and they naturally could not defend the Qin State.
Third, Li Xin disappeared.
Li Xin is actually a famous general, but he is not comparable to Wang Qi, because he is a rising star and has not been the main force. Therefore, his credit cannot be reflected in the early stages.
For example, when attacking the State of Zhao, Wang Qi was the main force, leading hundreds of thousands of horses to attack the Zhao army from Zhangshui and Yicheng
Li Xin sent troops from Taiyuan and Yunzhong to cooperate with Wang Qi's actions and eventually destroy the Zhao state.
When attacking the State of Yan, Li Xinxian took the lead in arriving at the Yishui River with his men and horses, and defeated the men and horses of Prince Dan of Yan.
After Wang Qi's army conquered Jicheng, Li Xin was mainly responsible for chasing the remnants of Yan Wang Xi's troops, and eventually forced Yan Wang Xi to send the head of Yan Prince Dan to Qin Shi Huang.
Of course, at the time of the battle to destroy Chu, Li Xin was a bit drifting, and Wang Qi wanted an army of 600,000 to destroy Chu.
But Li Xin only needed 200,000 troops. As a result, he lost the battle and almost lost his life there.
The First Emperor thought he was brave. So the First Emperor asked Li Xin, "I want to capture Jing, so I will use geometric people to enough for the general?" Li Xinyue: "But with 200,000 people." The First Emperor asked Wang Qi, who said, "You must have 600,000 people." The First Emperor said, "General Wang is old, He Timid!" General Lee is strong and courageous, and his words are also. "So Li Xin and Meng Tian sent 200,000 southern Jing. --- The Chronicle of History
Later, in the campaign to destroy the Yan and Qi states, Li Xindu made military achievements. But there was no longer a chance to lead the legion alone. Later, Li Xin disappeared, and it was estimated that it was not reused.
After all, the battle to destroy Chu suffered a big loss, and from then on, Qin Shi Huang did not dare to reuse it, and over time, Li Xin would become invisible to everyone. It is worth mentioning that Li Guang, a general of the Han Dynasty, is a descendant of Li Xin.
Summary: When the Qin state fell, these famous generals were gone.
In the process of destroying the Six Kingdoms, Zhang Handan was really at an inaccessible level compared to the above ones. However, in the later stage, only Zhang Handan was left to pick up the girder.
Therefore, if those five people were still there, the Qin kingdom would not perish. Unfortunately, during the Qin II period, these five people disappeared, which was the heavens that wanted to destroy the Qin kingdom.
Reference: Chronicle of History